''Aloïse'' is a 1975 French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Liliane de Kermadec Liliane de Kermadec (6 October 1928 – 13 February 2020) was a Polish-French film director and screenwriter. She directed more than twenty films and documentaries between 1965 and 2016. Career Liliane de Kermadec began as a set photographe ...

. It was entered into the

1975 Cannes Film Festival The 28th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 23 May 1975. French actress Jeanne Moreau served as jury president for the main competition. Algerian filmmaker Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama ...

. Tim Palmer has written about this film in his article, "Enraged to Live: Reviving Liliane de Kermadec’s ''Aloïse''," in ''French Screen Studies''.

Plot

The unsuccessful Swiss artist Aloïse Corbaz finds work at the court of the German emperor and gets infatuated. Showing frank symptoms of insanity she is hospitalised.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Known for her portrayals of cold, austere women devoid of morality, she is considered one of the greatest actresses of her generation. With 16 nominations and two win ...

- Aloïse jeune / Aloïse as a child * Delphine Seyrig - Aloïse adulte / Aloïse as an adult * Marc Eyraud - Le père d'Aloïse / Aloïse's father *

Michael Lonsdale Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often ...

- Le médecin directeur / The second doctor * Valérie Schoeller - Élise jeune / Élise as a child * Monique Lejeune - Élise adulte / Élise as an adult *

Julien Guiomar Julien Guiomar (3 May 1928 in Morlaix, Finistère, Brittany – 22 November 2010 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine), was a French film actor. The actor had retired to the Dordogne at Monpazier. The person who incarnated Colonel Vincent in " ...

- Le directeur de théâtre *

Roger Blin Roger Blin (22 March 1907 – 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's ''Waiting for Godot'' in 1953 and ''Endgame'' in 1957. Biography Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his ...

- Le professeur de chant / The singing teacher *

Jacques Debary Jacques Debary (25 November 1914 – 9 December 2011) was a French actor. Filmography References External links * 1914 births 2011 deaths People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne Male actors from Hauts-de-France French male film actors Fren ...

- the old director * - the teacher *

Jacques Weber Jacques Weber is a French actor, director, and writer. Life and career Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and ...

-the engineer * Nita Klein - the head nurse *

Hans Verner Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

- the chaplain * Alice Reichen - 'la microphonée' *

François Chatelet François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1 ...

- the priest * Fernand Guiot - the priest in the asylum

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External links

* 1975 films 1970s French-language films 1975 drama films Films directed by Liliane de Kermadec French drama films 1970s French films French-language drama films {{1970s-France-film-stub

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